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…wrote: An interesting piece to read before you start your weekend. Guest Post by Jim Krane: Dubai, Not Obama, is the Mideast's Best Peace Hope Tuesday, Sep 01 2009, 3:11PMThis is a guest note by Jim Krane, a former AP Persian Gulf correspondent. His new book on Dubai, City of Gol...

… is currently undergoing upheaval not seen since the early 1980s. Syria lies at the center of a dense network of Middle East relationships, and the crisis in that country -- which has now resulted in the deaths of well over 100 civilians, and possibly close to double that number...

…ial officer CFTC: Commodity Futures Trading Commission CPI: consumer price index EAFE: Europe, Australasia and the Far East ECB: European Central Bank EM: emerging market EMD: emerging market dollar debt EMLD: emerging market local debt EMEA: Europe, the Middle East and Afric...

…M To: jeffrey E. [[email protected]] Subject: Re: Importance: — High don't forget I want to go with you to the mid east sometime... On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 9:15 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: im off sat to europe mid east etc. return around the 30 On Thu, Ja...

…eignty over the entirety of the Old City, it did give the Palestinians a greater measure of control over other areas of East Jerusalem than any Israeli government had been willing to consider in the past. Still, almost everyone in the negotiating team could live with it, assuming...

…, adding to the general sense of insecurity and latent violence in the region. And of all the threats facing the Middle East, perhaps the greatest -- greater even than of another Arab-Israeli clash -- is that of rampant sectarianism, poisoning relationships between and within sta...

…s it felt that additional moves would win additional explicit concessions. Beyond that, the outlines of what in Middle East peacemaking is known as "final status" are clear enough: Iran agrees to verifiable inspections to ensure that it does not enrich uranium beyond 3.5 percent...

…gerous dumb decisions that continue to make me humble. 1. Early one morning in 1963, at my tiny apartment on the Lower East Side of New York (now the East Village), | was in bed with a young woman | had met at a party, when the phone rang. It was her boyfriend, a lower-echelon M...

24 East. The Iranians evidently hoped that militancy against the west, above all on behalf of the Palestinians, could counteract the league-of- outsiders aspect of their alliance. For a while, this project appeared to be working. The Iran-created and sponsored Hezbollah movement...

…to show that equity markets were priced inexpensively, but were likely to stay that way, given too much stimulus in the East, and ineffective stimulus in the West **. We expect a modest second half recovery, based primarily on US capital spending increases, easy credit conditions...

…f nations and put an end to 34 years of unremitting hostility. Patrick Seale is a leading British writer on the Middle East. His latest book is The Struggle for Arab Independence: Riad el- Solh and the Makers of the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press). Article 4. T...

with the break-up of the East European–style system introduced by the Baathists in the 1960s

the military power embodied by the Pentagon—had been hit. Sweets were handed out in East Jerusalem

2011 -- If you look into the different “shop” windows across the Middle East

…rld pressed to the glass, appalled and titillated by the monster inside the big house—a kind of Boo Radley of the Upper East Side. I have taken friends by the Epstein mansion, and the reaction to its other-worldly size in Manhattan is almost always the same: audible disbelief (ev...